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What a heartless girl!

U.S. teen lives 118 days without heart

Wed Nov 19, 2008 3:55pm EST

By Jim Loney

MIAMI (Reuters) - An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami said on Wednesday.

Must have been a very boring 4 months for the poor girl, but what a payoff! This is almost as exciting as this story:

Quote:

Europeans Announce Pioneering Surgery

Published: November 19, 2008

By ALAN COWELL and DENISE GRADY

PARIS — Physicians at four European universities have successfully transplanted a human windpipe, using stem cells from the recipient’s own bone marrow to reline a donor trachea and prevent its rejection by her immune system, according to an article in the British medical journal The Lancet.

I can hardly wait for this technology to mature. Then I can breath easily.

"Anyone can repress a woman, but you need 'dictated' scriptures to feel you're really right in repressing her. In the same way, homophobes thrive everywhere. But you must feel you've got scripture on your side to come up with the tedious 'Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve' style arguments instead of just recognising that some people are different."
- Douglas Murray

And aren't we glad that the doctors who did these things didn't simply pray, but actually spent 15 years in med school, maybe more, so that things like this could happen.

I'll take a doctor over any holy book of any label, any day.

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